Fabric coiled bowls and baskets galore

Remember Macramé?  Used to do a ton of it back in the 70's along with lots of other hand crafts like tye dying, embroidery on my bell bottom pants, jewelry making  and wood carving.   One craft I have rediscovered recently is creating baskets and bowls using fabric coiled around clothesline.  It's a great way to use up some scraps and the extra binding pieces that I always seem to cut.  

This project doesn't require a ton of new and expensive supplies either.  Most of us have plenty of fabric on hand to make several bowls, baskets, trivets, place mats or what ever.  I watched a YouTube tutorial and made these bowls. The only thing I purchased was 50 feet of clothesline about 1/4 in in diameter.

Once the cord is wrapped just stitch it using a zig zag.  The tutorials will show you how to start the sewing which is the only tricky part of the project.

I used two different fabrics, with similar colors, for the bowls pictured above and below.  Each fabric had a really different pattern yet when coiled the two look almost identical in color.

For the next bowl I will create the embellishment using coiled and covered clothesline with some baubles.  I'm not too happy with the little flowers but they are firmly glued on so I'll live with them!

Projects like this are a nice change from piecing and quilting in general.  I like the three dimensional result and wrapping the clothesline is a good evening activity while I'm sitting in front of the TV with my hubby pretending to enjoy the history channel.

Have you made anything using fabric wrapped clothesline? 

Keep creating.... 

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